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Since their beginning, human societies and their ecosystems have been inter-dependent. While the early hunting-gathering way of life relied on the provisioning of wild animals and plants, with the emergence of agriculture and permanent settlements humans began to actively shape the land surface of the Earth in order to produce biomass for food, materials and energy conversion.
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We take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) Germany (through CESR, University of Kassel Germany) and University of Sydney for giving us the privilege to organize International conferences at ISEC, Bangalore, India which finally has come out in form of this volume. We extend our sincere thanks to the Director, ISEC, President, University of Kassel, Germany and President, University Sydney, Executive Director and Deputy Executive Director, CESR, University of Kassel for their kind encouragement and support. We would like to extend our thanks and appreciations to Ms. Vani Gopi (Production editor, Springer) and Mr. Govardhana K.M. (Production Editor, Scientific Publishing Services) for the kind help, support and assistance during the entire publication process and also to copy editor (Production team) and series editors Ulrich Förstner, Wim H. Rulkens and Wim Salomons for their careful reading of the book manuscript. The encouragement and support of Ms. Agata Oelschlaeger, Springer Book Production (Project Coordinator) is thankfully acknowledged. We are thankful to ISEC faculty and staff for their wholehearted support and cooperation in organising these conferences at ISEC.
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Nautiyal, S., Schaldah, R., Raju, K.V., Kaechele, H., Pritchard, B., Rao, K.S. (2016). Climate Change Challenge (3C) and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building—Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood Development: Prologue. In: Nautiyal, S., Schaldach, R., Raju, K., Kaechele, H., Pritchard, B., Rao, K. (eds) Climate Change Challenge (3C) and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_1
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